The Iranian Oil Crisis


 

Publication Date: February 1979

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): James A. Phillips

Research Area: Energy

Keywords: Middle East

Type: Report

Coverage: Iran

Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to examine the short-term impact of the Iranian oil shortfall on oil-importing states--especially the United States--and to outline several long-term trends in oil production which might be set in motion by the Iranian oil crisis.